Oh, I think as a generalization that makes excellent sense. In this
particular case, it may or may not. This is a straight, lame, read-
this-card tutorial app; some cards are too long not to scroll
(already less than ideal from a UI standpoint, but I don't want to
make the stack as big as the biggest card, or keep changing the
stack's size, and many cards are such clear logical units they can't
be broken up without creating conceptual confusion). A few cards have
special go-here-for-more-information buttons, and those buttons are
logically attached to particular pieces of the text.
Within that framework, I don't see how to do otherwise than the bit
whose ugliness you're quite right to point out. Of course the whole
framework may be screwy -- but that's a very large question about the
design & efficacy of on-screen tutorials.
Charles Hartman
On Jul 4, 2005, at 5:18 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:
Just my two cents -- and it's a holiday here so my brain may be
otherwise engaged -- I think putting buttons into scrolling fields
is a terrible UI idea. By definition, it puts certain functionality
out of the reach of the user until and unless s/he scrolls the
field. Lotus NOtes allowed this and every time I saw an app
designed to take advantage of it, users got confused.
I suspect I feel the same way about buttons in scrolling GROUPS.
Interactive functionality needs to be where users
can...well...interact with it, no?
Dan (who fears he's probably started another one of those "up your
opinion" threads that are so much fun)
On Jul 4, 2005, at 8:14 AM, Charles Hartman wrote:
On Jul 1, 2005, at 1:04 PM, Mathewson wrote:
I have just downloaded the SuperCard 4.5 demo and found
they have a new feature:
allowObjects
this lets the user embed object (images and so on) inside
FIELDS:
WOW - I would love scrolling text fields with pictures!
-- and buttons! (At the moment I'm doing this is a non-scrolling
field inside a scrolling group, but aside from being tedious that
has other disadvantages, such as the scroll-wheel not working right.)
Charles Hartman
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